Napster is very public by nature. You take a list of your files and publish it on the net and offer the files for download. Nothing different from putting up a html page with mp3s and not private at all. Those 'kids' got caught in public while illegaly copying (read stealing) their music.
You need to generate the tree to find it, but not all of it at once.
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Because it's all about the tree. Like a hiker leaving his mark on a tree to find his way back, If you delete the tree from state as you drill down, you'll find you're answer, but won't have the path to return.
Uh huh, if I walk down a tree the path I need to keep book of is 100 moves. Not exactly the universe.
The trick is not to generate the tree and then walk it but to generate while you walk and forgetting parts when possible.Once you walked down a dead branch you can go back and abandon it. And in chess there are a lot of dead branches because only few moves will not lead to terrible losses in any given situation.
Else a chess program would need two terabytes of memory to think just 8 moves ahead. (35^8 = 2.251.875.390.625). And chess programs certainly don't need that.
Checking 35^100 situations is not pretty. However the 'molecules in the universe' argument doesn't cut it. It's a time problem.
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Just a little note, while Galileo Galilei was rehabilitated by the catholic church recently (i.e. they admitted they did him wrong) after only 300 years, they won't do the same for Bruno.
One might wonder if it's because of it's teachings or the implication of wrongful death penalty by the "infallible" Pope. Well, murdering him was wrong no matter what, but you get my drift.
OMG, I already forgot about those, call me senile. Probably because I'm so old I was conscious when the 80s came along.
I remember a friend of mine going out and collecting a few of these when the new cans were introduced, he said just to remember. Back then I thought he was nuts. Now I wish I had some.
I don't know why, but pull top cans are so way much cooler. The lid thing you pull of has a thousand useful appliances, I want my pull top can back. Damn them jerks who littered the lids all over the place. You just put the lid inside the can when you're done and throw it both away, no sharp lids lying around..
Actually it's not really that bloated. It admittedly takes 5 mins to boot on my system, while NT4 needs 1 minute and Win98 20s. But a clean system uses just 15.8 MB RAM which just amazes me, since this means they have gone DOWN with requirements in this aspect.
Therefore Win2k runs faster on systems with 32 MB than NT does, but anyway who runs NT/2k on a 32 MB system these days?
I never got what kind of answer "god" is supposed to be. It doesn't answer a single why or how but merely adds questions.
Also Religion doesn't do good when attacking science by pointing at areas not yet understood like abiogenesis or origin of the universe. Or even worse pointing at new discoveries and yell "look god!". It will only lead to embarassment and alienate people of good faith when science goes there.
Consider the example of opening a safe with a number lock. Let's say it has 10 fields, so 10^10 (10 billion) combinations for random number entering. Selection would be like a light over each field that lights when you find the right number. So you need at worst 10 attempts for one field. So after entering at worst 100 numbers the safe opens. Selection accelerates the process 100 million times.
Think about the thermodynamics of the situation for a moment. The plants produce energy, the energy comes from converting radioactivity into heat. So the total amount of radioactivity has to decline, right?
Wrong, the thermodynamics here involves more. Atoms don't have a certain amount of radioactiveness you can drain from. That's not the way it works. Again, you make the atoms fission and you get a lot of hard radiation and radioactive elements.
Nuclear fission creates a mass defect. That mass is converted into the energy you get. The level of radiation can be higher after fission. Got absolutely nothing to do with how much energy you drain.
Ah, but why is the stuff sitting above ground in barrels? Because everyone is too nervous about putting it back into the ground somewhere, because it might leak out somehow or other. What about the danger of the natural ores "leaking"?
The only dangers of natural ore, I know of is Radon emission. My advice is, don't build your house above an uranium mine. Leaking is not a problem. Ores don't leak.
It's there naturally in the ground, it gets dug up and concentrated, the radioactivity runs down a bit inside the plant, and then you get to try and pick a safe place to put what's leftover. Think of it as an environmental clean-up program, gathering together poisonous material and stashing it out of the way.
Wow, nice disinformation here.
You concentrate the stuff and then you get a chain reaction by neutron bombarding. That means you make the atoms go *pop* and you get a whole pandemonium of even more radioactive and/or poisonous substances. That's different from natural decay where the atom emits alpha particles and shrinks over time. In case of Uran leaving harmless plumbum behind.
And Uran dispersed somewhere underground is a lot less problematic than thousands of hyperradioactive barrels stashed somewhere.
And noone said Coal plants are a good thing, so please stop talking past the issue he mentioned.
I agree 100%. Mental disorders are a serious issue. People who have experienced such things happen to friends or family don't pull jokes or get all paranoid if the surgeon general posts a public alert. This issue needs more attention. The new inflammatory style of reporting on/. is an annoyance. I come here to hear tech news. If I need bad journalism and screaming paranoid headlines I'll read the National Inquirer. It's sad to see a good site go down the drain.
There were no pixels to control. At the time there existed CRT (cathode ray tube) monitors. But these did not work pixel but vector oriented. That means it can draw lines and shapes. The emulator translates this vector into a pixel display. That's why the ships edges seem to morph a little when it moves. To play this game actually cost a few hundred bucks in processing time back when the PDP-1 was a hot machine. And for the record those guys invented the joystick for the game.
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I saw those on Cebit one or two years ago. Still pretty cool, though.
Metallica is perfectly right with this action.
Napster is very public by nature. You take a list of your files and publish it on the net and offer the files for download. Nothing different from putting up a html page with mp3s and not private at all. Those 'kids' got caught in public while illegaly copying (read stealing) their music.
No it's not. A path is the solution.
You need to generate the tree to find it, but not all of it at once.
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Uh huh, if I walk down a tree the path I need to keep book of is 100 moves. Not exactly the universe.
The trick is not to generate the tree and then walk it but to generate while you walk and forgetting parts when possible.Once you walked down a dead branch you can go back and abandon it. And in chess there are a lot of dead branches because only few moves will not lead to terrible losses in any given situation.
Else a chess program would need two terabytes of memory to think just 8 moves ahead. (35^8 = 2.251.875.390.625). And chess programs certainly don't need that.
Checking 35^100 situations is not pretty. However the 'molecules in the universe' argument doesn't cut it. It's a time problem.
Now just give us a good reason why you should have to keep the whole tree in memory at once.
- Safe Sex Cookie TM - A penis cookie wrapped in an edible condom.
- Limp Dick on a Stick Cookie TM - A limp penis resting on a lollipop stick.
- Big Boob Cookie TM - A pair of very large breasts.
- Black Box Cookie TM - A frontal view of a woman's hair pie.
Did that made your mouth water? Then head over to XXX Cookies
Limp Dick on a Stick? WTF?
I know, flaming free stuff is a nono, but I'm not flaming it just hurts my eyes.
Anyway why should I bother having some swirling psycho patterns on my desktop when there are pictures of Gisele Bündchen?
One might wonder if it's because of it's teachings or the implication of wrongful death penalty by the "infallible" Pope. Well, murdering him was wrong no matter what, but you get my drift.
I remember a friend of mine going out and collecting a few of these when the new cans were introduced, he said just to remember. Back then I thought he was nuts. Now I wish I had some.
I don't know why, but pull top cans are so way much cooler. The lid thing you pull of has a thousand useful appliances, I want my pull top can back. Damn them jerks who littered the lids all over the place. You just put the lid inside the can when you're done and throw it both away, no sharp lids lying around..
Enough incoherence for today :P
Therefore Win2k runs faster on systems with 32 MB than NT does, but anyway who runs NT/2k on a 32 MB system these days?
I never got what kind of answer "god" is supposed to be. It doesn't answer a single why or how but merely adds questions.
Also Religion doesn't do good when attacking science by pointing at areas not yet understood like abiogenesis or origin of the universe. Or even worse pointing at new discoveries and yell "look god!". It will only lead to embarassment and alienate people of good faith when science goes there.
Consider the example of opening a safe with a number lock. Let's say it has 10 fields, so 10^10 (10 billion) combinations for random number entering. Selection would be like a light over each field that lights when you find the right number. So you need at worst 10 attempts for one field. So after entering at worst 100 numbers the safe opens. Selection accelerates the process 100 million times.
A democracy excluding women and allowing slavery is none. Only after the Civil war the US can be called a democracy.
Wrong, the thermodynamics here involves more. Atoms don't have a certain amount of radioactiveness you can drain from. That's not the way it works. Again, you make the atoms fission and you get a lot of hard radiation and radioactive elements.
Nuclear fission creates a mass defect. That mass is converted into the energy you get. The level of radiation can be higher after fission. Got absolutely nothing to do with how much energy you drain.
Ah, but why is the stuff sitting above ground in barrels? Because everyone is too nervous about putting it back into the ground somewhere, because it might leak out somehow or other. What about the danger of the natural ores "leaking"?
The only dangers of natural ore, I know of is Radon emission. My advice is, don't build your house above an uranium mine. Leaking is not a problem. Ores don't leak.
Wow, nice disinformation here.
You concentrate the stuff and then you get a chain reaction by neutron bombarding. That means you make the atoms go *pop* and you get a whole pandemonium of even more radioactive and/or poisonous substances. That's different from natural decay where the atom emits alpha particles and shrinks over time. In case of Uran leaving harmless plumbum behind.
And Uran dispersed somewhere underground is a lot less problematic than thousands of hyperradioactive barrels stashed somewhere.
And noone said Coal plants are a good thing, so please stop talking past the issue he mentioned.
I agree 100%. Mental disorders are a serious issue. People who have experienced such things happen to friends or family don't pull jokes or get all paranoid if the surgeon general posts a public alert. This issue needs more attention. The new inflammatory style of reporting on /. is an annoyance. I come here to hear tech news. If I need bad journalism and screaming paranoid headlines I'll read the National Inquirer. It's sad to see a good site go down the drain.
There were no pixels to control. At the time there existed CRT (cathode ray tube) monitors. But these did not work pixel but vector oriented. That means it can draw lines and shapes. The emulator translates this vector into a pixel display. That's why the ships edges seem to morph a little when it moves. To play this game actually cost a few hundred bucks in processing time back when the PDP-1 was a hot machine. And for the record those guys invented the joystick for the game.